The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-10-23
MISS MULOCK's FUNERAL.
Presents From Queen Victoria and
Other NOtables.

LONDON, October 16.-The funeral OF
Mrs. Craik, best known as Miss Null
ock, took place yesterday. Her mortal
remains rest in a corner angle of the
Keston churchyard, not far from the
grave of Darwin.
When the family cortege left the
pretty Vine-embowered villa built of
red tile, Gothic style, where she had so
long lived with her husband "a partner
in Macmillan & Co.'S, there was brilli-
ant sunshine; but when the bier, borne
upon the shoulders of six gentlemen
friends of the family, entered the old
fashioned church shower of rain gently
fell, to be followed by genial sunshine,
when the service-which the vicar per-
formed-was ended.
A PICTURESQUE GRAVE.
The grave presented a picturesque
appearance, its sides and bottom being
in pure white cbalky soil surrounded
with exquisite flowers, from wreaths
sent by order of the Queen and by Lord
Tennyson, and other floral DESIGNS
which were sent by relatives and
friends, to the modest gifts of wild
flowers from Sunday school children
and rural neighbors. There was large
attendance-of some who came to
honor themselves by paying their re-
spect to the memory of the novelist,
poet and essayist, and of throngs of
neighbors who chiefly recognized in her
loss that of good friend and benevo-
lent lady whom all the parish had
learned to love.
SOME OF THE MoURrERs.
Among the mourners were the broth
ers Macmillan and their families; John
Morley, the statesman and author; Hol-
man Hunt, R. A, and wife; Sir George
Grove, the great musical critic; J. Nor
G. B., and family; Frederick Green
wood, the journalist, and Mary Ander-
son, who placed upon the coffin basket
of exquisite exotics. l must not forget
Mrs. Craik's adopted daughter, whose
banns were read in church only last
Sunday in the presence of Mrs. Craik.
During hedge-side walk, years ago,
the authoress found a babe that had
been abandoned. Her innocent smiles
and coquettish ways Immediately won
the heart of her future mother, who
adopted and reared her.
HER OWN HYMN.
The village choir, as the coffin was
lowered, sang a hymn which it was
said Miss Mulock had written, one
verse of which send, as foIlows:-
Earth to earth, and dust to dust
Calmly now thy words we say.
Left behind, we wait in trust
For the Resurrection Day.
Father, in thy gracious keeping
Leave we now thy servant sleeping
HER ILLNESS AND DEATH.
1 learned concerning the circum-
stances of her death that DR.. Phillips,
of Bromley-a village adjacent to
Shortlands, where she lived, had been
in attendance upon Mrs. Craik for
some time, although her health had
not been so bad as to occasion serious
concern to her friends.
But there Is reason to believe that she
herself suspected an affection
of the heart. About a quarter to
five on Wednesday afternoon last
she was taken suddenly i'll in her beC.
room and fell down, to die in a few
minutes.
THE Wears TRIBUTE.
The vicar, in brief address, seems
to have well summed up Mrs. Craik s
mental characteristics when he said:
ITO exquisite charm of style, in
genuity of plot and original power of
humor and pathos she added a keen in
sight into the workings of the human
heart and quick conception of high